LA Conservancy Launches new Website

Los Angeles Conservancy's new website is up and features a sturdy platform -- and nifty new logo -- to help preservation loyalists navigate Los Angeles County's resources. LA Conservancy writes:

(It is) the site’s first major redevelopment since it first launched in 2000, the new laconservancy.org features background on hundreds of historic places, the latest information about active Conservancy preservation issues, and a dedicated section about Modern architecture as part of the Getty initiative, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.

What may take up your free time is the map of gems, searchable by keyword or filtered by architect, style, decade, and community. Also on the site are essays, guides, and news on ongoing preservation issues. It's also a storehouse for walking tours. There's even a section is dedicated to Latino/a Heritage.

The website comes from 2012 user survey and made possible by support for the new Curating the City: Modern Architecture in L.A., provided by the Getty Foundation, and general funding from the Ahmanson Foundation and the Donaldson Charitable Trust.

LA Conservancy updated logo is the "the cornerstone of a new graphic identity that will roll out over the next year" and is the visual lead for a series of graphic iconography that will play off architectural details and the "breadth of the Conservancy’s work."